Holistic Advocacy Intensives

Open-Access Intensives are designed to center and prioritize directly impacted parents, caregivers, grassroots organizers, and small teams and defender agencies who may not have institutional backing or access to professional development funds. These intensives operate on a sliding scale, allowing participants to self-select the tier that reflects their financial reality. This model ensures that those most harmed by systems of family policing are not priced out of critical knowledge, tools, and organizing spaces. The sliding scale reflects our values: solidarity for those with limited access, sustainability for our programming, and redistribution for those with resources to help underwrite the costs for others

Contracted Organizational Trainings are tailored for larger organizations—such as law schools, and advocacy institutions—with dedicated budgets for training and staff development. These institutions are charged at rates proportionate to their financial capacity, based on annual budget size. These private trainings allow us to meet organizational needs while also generating revenue that supports our broader mission, including our ability to subsidize open-access participation.

This dual-track approach matters because equity in access must be built into every layer of our work. The truth is, transformative advocacy training has often been inaccessible to the very people most affected by family regulation systems. Our structure allows us to redistribute resources, center directly impacted voices, and ensure the financial sustainability of our organization. Every dollar raised through organizational contracts and redistribution tiers goes directly toward paying system-impacted trainers, compensating lived experts, and funding BLU’s movement-building efforts. This isn’t just a training model—it’s a justice strategy.

• Grassroots advocates and organizers with limited financial access.
• Individuals impacted by family policing, incarceration, or immigration enforcement. 
• People without consistent income or financial safety nets.
• Mutual aid workers, caregivers, and volunteers paying out-of-pocket.
• Individuals living paycheck to paycheck or with significant debt.

• People or teams who can meet basic needs but have limited disposable income.
• Small nonprofits, organizations with annual budgets under $250K.
• Individuals who may have some financial stability but limited institutional support.

• Individuals and organizations with steady income or budget flexibility.
• Those who can pay the actual cost of programming without hardship.

• Well-resourced individuals or institutions who can support equitable access for others.
• Defender offices, funders, and organizations with professional development budgets under 5,000
• This will allow pay for impacted orgs or folx to join (cover solidarity rate)

Indicators of this category include:

• Annual org budget over $1M
• Highest-paid staff earn over $75K
• Have paid for multiple staff to attend external trainings
• Committed to redistributing resources to directly impacted communities